Dont believe everything you see on the catwalk. Tom Stubbs sorts the real fashion men from the boys with this winters dos and donts

According to the shows, the key looks we should be running with this winter include LA street-gang member, tinfoil rock star and action-movie bad guy. Leave these moulds to the fad lads and get involved with some alternative moves, which, for the sake of artistic licence, I’ve termed the Hands-on finance director of an Austrian riding school (high-necked night-storm coat), Milk Tray man (burglar knits) and Jason King, louche 1970s playboy detective (smooth suit, rollnecks). They might sound mad, but in the solar system of style, they are the real trajectories to follow. And they are workable.

DROP THE DEAD PARKA

Avoid blending into the shapeless mass of khaki and fur hoods, and give the parka a few seasons’ rest. Hear’Say no more. Do the high-collared storm coat instead. It’s longer, in the style of the trench, with under-collar fastenings and storm flaps. The disciplined